CURRENT MISSION

find a way to operate effectively in the world

ABOUT ME

My name is Julien and I'm quite happy with it. I can sometimes feel that there's a mystery about it. I like mysteries, I used to cultivate them ; but I came to realize one day that I was but a normal human being, which in no way prevent me from thinking that I'm bound to become a Great Man. I happen to think that real life is still to come and the present is but a prequel to epic episodes. Therefore I don't live, don't do, but I expect too much. I'm craving for a shock, a crack, a smash bump into my life : I feel like I'm living inside a dream.

In the meantime I try not to be too stupid and I strive to understand things around me. I think I'm at once very sharp and very naive ; that must be youth. My fuel is enthusiasm : God I love this state : when I'm possessed by an idea, I won't be gotten rid of it. Sometimes though, I'm down. Then I keep daydreaming about how nice it'd be to live somewhere else, in London or in New York City. I live in Köln, Germany. I've been living in Paris for two years, and in Geneva for eighteen years and I don't want to go back home. There's no home.

That would be me ?

PHILOSOPHY

"For now we see through a glass, darkly ; but then face to face."
1 Corinthians 13:12

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have been shown the city of Bonn, been hosted in Bonn, Köln, London, and I have hosted wherever I could, in Geneva and in Paris. Always nice, smooth, good. I met awesome people.

兴趣

I read a lot because I like literature and because I've got basically nothing else to do with my life. I also go very readily to the movies but I'm a fucking purist who can't stand people talking or eating popcorn in the theaters. I'm also very demanding and we most certainly won't agree at the end of a film. First of all, I think I'm interested in the ? world and I don't want to consider art as a world apart but as a mere reflection.

I like big cities and maps, I want to live in London one day (next year ?). I love walking or biking downtown. I'm interested in the US, in British eccentrics and in humor even though I'm no funny guy. I'd like to know more about sex = to experience more but I'm a shy person. Sometimes I pretend that I am still a virgin because it feels sexy to say that. It doesn't ? Why, I may be a wee bit twisted then.

• arts
• literature
• cooking
• walking
• movies
• juggling
• cycling
• cartography
• languages
• parks
• rivers

音乐、电影和书籍

2001 : A Space Odyssey
Days of Heaven
Rosemary's Baby
Metropolis
Bande A Part
All About Eve
Amarcord
Mon Oncle
Notorious
L'Idiot
Eraserhead
Stranger than Paradise

Houellebecq
Schopenhauer
Flaubert
Ramuz
Chesterton
Coleridge
Salinger
Drieu la Rochelle
Hawthorne
Emerson
Broch

Bob Dylan
The Doors
David Bowie
The Animals
The Kinks
Johnny Cash
Arcade Fire
Jacques Brel
Led Zeppelin

Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Nan Goldin
Bernd & Hilla Becher
William Eggleston
Walker Evans
Bill Henson

Klee
Manet
Monet
Millais
Rossetti
Sargent
Macke

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Big Ben chiming. Blue Paris when 5 in the morning.

I love parks in the very heart of a city, and rivers : each river I met had some particularity of its own. The water of the Rhône is green and icy, I gaze a gazely stare at the multitudinous boats that ply the Rhine, on the banks of the glittering Seine I cried, I danced and I fell in love, and the tides of grey Thames rejoice me. Stop me I'm waxing lyrical...

教，学，和分享

I'm not sure if I'm an interesting person actually. I can listen and try to think. I can answer. I laugh, I cry. Human being.

What is extraordinary about me is that I can juggle with five balls and walk on my hands. Apart from that I've got no particular talent. I'd like to be able to cook one day and to speak many languages like this guy, José Rizal, he mastered 22 languages ; I can barely three.